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...platform calls for "good government" and backs the current version of the rent control law. Its members on the Council have also opposed many large commercial developments...
...HRAAA's own tactics have come under fire.Both Egan and Malkin said their actions werepartly meant as a response to a letter to alumniby Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell endorsingTutu's candidacy...
...speed the expulsion of any person convicted, or even suspected, of dealing or using drugs. Moreover, anyone who shared the apartment with the drug offender could also be ousted. Mary Brunette, Kemp's spokeswoman, pooh-poohs the civil liberties questions raised by that policy. Says she: "The rights of law-abiding families in public housing are at least as important as the rights of criminals...
...what about the rights of law-abiding family members whose relatives are accused of a drug offense? Should they be held culpable for the crime? "We're concerned about those who might be innocent and evicted," says Wade Henderson of the A.C.L.U. "The next step from public housing for many people is homelessness." Kemp's desire to rid the projects of drug dealers and encourage parental vigilance is commendable. But the strategy he unveiled last week seems likely to provoke legal challenges that could hamper its implementation -- and throw some innocent tenants out on the street...
Where were you on the night of March 23? Out dancing, perhaps, or attending a PTA meeting or just sitting at home watching L.A. Law? If so, you did not realize how close you came to disaster. While you were blissfully unaware of the danger, a huge asteroid whizzed past the earth, coming closer than any other such heavenly body seen in 52 years. If the giant clump of rock -- half a mile across by one estimate -- had hit the planet, it would have packed the wallop of thousands of H-bombs and possibly killed millions of people...